Friday, January 31, 2014

When Eddie Redmayne lived in New York in 2010, he became close friends with Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano.

Eddie's answer to a question in an interview about going out after the show (Red) in NYC:

Yeah I do. It's been cool. Zoe Kazan and her boyfriend Paul [Dano] --I've been hanging out with them a bit, and it's been really fun. I tend to go out for a drink or two because it's quite high adrenaline. ( x )

When Eddie did the play 'Red' in New York, he read the script of
'My Week with Marilyn' and he made an audition tape to applying
for the part Zoe helped him. She read Marilyn's part. (x)

All three of them attended events such as premieres of 'My Week with Marilin', Zoe's 'We live here' and 'Les Misérables'.
During the summer of 2010 Paul shot a short film "Franklin and Matilda" with Eddie and Zoe, which didn't come out yet. It’s a black and white love story made as homage to Francois Truffaut.Photo: Eddie with Zoe in NYC May 2010

They attended the party for the New York Film Festival premiere of "My Week With Marilyn"

hosted by Dior at Hudson Hotel on October 9, 2011 in New York City. ( x ) & ( x )

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Yesterday was 'The Invisible Woman' premiere at the Odeon Kensington in London.
The vogue.co.uk website published an article today about Felicity Jones from the Vogue February issue, an interview in which she mentions Eddie Redmayne too. I illustrated the post with Theory of Everything set photos, that I didn't posted yet. ( x ) Some of them are cropped.

Ralph Fiennes observes: "She is a totally natural actress who can open a window

for the audience. Through her eyes she conveys a rich inner life, full of emotion."

...she naturally gravitates towards a certain type of British actor: the type that pontificates, likes Shakespeare, treats theatre, film and television as equals, and doesn't stumble out of nightclubs. (Polly) Stenham praises her friend's mind: "Felicity has a fierce intellect. A mind like a knife. She looks at things intently. Then turns them upside down and looks again. I often think it might not just be acting that we'll know her for. And she's funny. Hellishly."

If this is a new cool British intelligentsia - the Bloomsbury Set relocated to twenty-first-century east London (where Jones and many of her cohorts live) - she seems proud to be a part of it. She says, "It's amazing to think we've always been working, for 10 years now, and together. Yesterday on set I watched Eddie Redmayne and Charlie Cox do a scene together, and it was so beautiful seeing the subtlety of their acting, how they now know absolutely how to be on camera. I love that we can still support each other." She decides what binds them all together is "seriousness. I think we all feel very lucky to be doing what we do, and we all believe in acting and believe in telling important stories." In recognition of this, and Jones and Redmayne's growing gravitas within the acting world, both actors have been elected to join a Bafta committee, on which Dexter Fletcher and Shane Meadows also sit, to nominate upcoming British talent in film, television and gaming for the Burberry-sponsored Breakthrough Brit Awards.

The Telegraph - News Topics - Mandrake - by Tim Walker 09 Dec 2013

Seeing is believing

Although it may not sound like such a compliment, Eddie
Redmaynetells me that he can’t wait to see Felicity Jones in The Invisible
Woman. “She going to be amazing in it,” says Redmayne, who stars
with her in Theory of Everything, a film about Stephen Hawking. He says she was hugely supportive to him as he played Hawking. As an
art historian, he adds his principal challenge was getting to grips with physics. ( x )

...Making Theory of Everything was life changing. It was very emotional. Stephen Hawking and Jane [his former wife] are phenomenal people because of what they’ve survived. They were so young when Stephen was diagnosed with motor neurone disease – she was 18, he was in his early 20s. They were told he was only going to live for two years and he’s now in his 70s – I think a lot of his survival comes from sheer personal drive and Jane is still an incredible support. Without sounding too dewy-eyed, Jane had such a capacity for love. I wanted to tell her story. For anyone who’s caring and being cared for it is a tough situation. But the whole story is rooted in love.Eddie Redmayne and I went round to Stephen Hawking’s house in Cambridge. Stephen is charming and incredibly charismatic; he has a very dry sense of humour. At one point we were talking about star signs: his birthday is on the same day as Galileo’s and he wrote, ‘I’m an astronomer not an astrologer’, which I thought was very funny.

I wasn’t great at physics and I hate maths. So at first I was a bit intimidated about the idea of trying to understand his theories, but that’s the great thing about A Brief History of Time – Stephen has made them accessible...

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Our lovable Eddie Redmayne is always very sweet, kind and gallant with women and plays mostly lovers (even the psychopats are those). Here are some photos of Eddie and Amanda Seyfried from last years interviews and events they attended together, and a gif from the set of Les Misérables. Seeing these flirty pictures I'm not surprised, that many people thought, they are a couple. They are cheerful, look good together and these gestures are easy to misunderstand. They were promoting the movie in which they were the romantic leads. Convincing!.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Eddie Redmayne is in the London Magazine February issue. Let's begin with the cover. They used a photo from the 2011 Toronto shoot. I already posted this in August (Stunning beauty), this breathtaking picture is one of my favorites.

In the magazine there's an article about the new generation of Londoners in Hollywood:Young, famous & British
By Danny Leigh - published on 27 January 2014Excerpts from the article (full article here):
...If you wanted to host a party solely for British actors now bestriding Hollywood, your problem would be finding a
big enough room. Limiting things to those with a London connection wouldn’t help...

...These days, Brits are as likely to play the heroes as the bad guys, and if you don’t hear a British accent when they speak it’s because our actors seem to be regarded by Hollywood as better at giving American than actual Americans...

...To John Papsidera, casting director of both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, the British have stepped into a vacuum: “You look at the list of American leading men, and they’re very boylike. You need to find guys who
carry that heroicness with them.”
A more conventionally reserved version of British manhood has also been key. As well as box office success,
what excites the studios is awards, of course...

...American stars can be cut off from anything outside their own career, whereas London’s culture is imbibed
by its actors...
... To American casting directors, a professional education in London still carries real heft...
...When we do throw that party, let’s make sure we make plenty of room for all the female actors, too.

When it comes to acting in Hollywood movies, there’s never been a better time to be from London...

The last part of the article briefly introduces Eddie Redmayne, mentions his most important English theater awards
and films, and a few quotes from him.

“Having large lips helped me to get the part of Angelina Jolie’s son, and my pale colouring helped me to get the role
of Julianne Moore’s son in Savage Grace – two physical features have never been so helpful.”
During filming in New York, he remembered, “I had saved up to be able to take my girlfriend out for a really special, extravagant meal. But when I went to pay the bill, they told me
‘Mr De Niro has already paid for you, Sir.’ I couldn’t believe it.”

There's a quote in it from Andrew Garfield about LA - he was born in LA to an American father and
English mother, but grew up in Epsom, and views his birthplace warily.
“It’s a weird place, in LA all you see are billboards for movies, everyone you meet is talking about movies, at the coffee shop someone’s writing a movie, you get in your car and on the radio they’re talking about movies...”

‘LA is mental, Completely f***ing nuts. If you’re an actor there for work, it’s hard not to resist being consumed by this weid, bubble-like existence.’ How so? ‘Well to give you a silly example, when I went there for the first time, five years ago, I was staying with my agent. I came down for breakfast in the morning and there was a copy of [industry paper] Variety on the table. I picked it up and dropped it immediately – it meant nothing to me. But just three weeks later, I’d wake up and be enthralled by headlines about Jennifer Aniston’s new lovers. And yet, at the same time, I didn’t even know the proper news, like the fact that the pope had died. Mental.’ Does it make you feel guilty? ‘I guess,’ he says, carefully. ’It’s a lifestyle that’s hard to reconcile in my head. I’ll be playing volleyball on the beach on a Wednesday afternoon, which just seems like the most indulgent thing ever when your dad is back home working crazy hours in a bank.’

Another article related to this topic by Michael Billington published in The Guardian today:Spot the Oscar winners of tomorrow at the Critics' Circle theatre awards

Those wanting a glimpse into Hollywood's future should pay attention to what British theatre critics are saying today. Ejiofor, Dench, Weisz, Redmayne – the list of graduates goes on.

...Chiwetel Ejiofor is a hot contender for best actor at the Oscars; in 2000 he picked up the critics' best newcomer gong for Blue/Orange and in 2007 shared the top Shakespeare award for his Othello. Judi Dench is also among this year's Oscar nominees for best actress – a prize she collected from the Brit crits in 1997 for Amy's View. What we aisle-squatters think today, Hollywood thinks tomorow
At the risk of sounding self-congratulatory, I'd say the critics have a pretty good track record when it comes to rewarding real talent.....

...The most promising newcomer roster is also highly impressive: Sam Mendes (another Oscar winner), who shared the prize with Julia Ormond in 1989, was followed by, among others, Lia Williams (1991), Rachel Weisz (1994), Eve Best (1999) and Eddie Redmayne (2004). Not a bad list...

Sunday, January 26, 2014

....The play begins with the entrance of Eddie Redmayne as the murdered son of Hecuba, Polydorus. The shock of Redmayne's appearance is as tangible as a lightning bolt through an audience which is stunned into wide-mouthed disbelief and wonder. Suffice to say this performance truly is magical. Redmayne delivers his sorrowful tale with ethereal grace as he strokes the surface of the sea. His bitter account of betrayal and murder told with benign simplicity and other-worldly resignation. Redmayne is present for most of the drama as it unfolds.

Polydorus
I am Polydorus, son of Hecuba.
Priam is my father.
I am dead.
I come from that darkness -
The abyss, the gates of godless hell.
Son of Hecuba,
Priam is my father -
He sent me from Troy,
Besieged by the Greeks;
Fearing the fall of Troy,
He secreted me
Away to Thrace,
To the home of his friend,
Polymestor, old friend
Who ploughs this fertile land,
Who rules its horsemen.
My father did with me
A hoard of gold.
Should the walls of Troy fall,
His children would not want.
I was Priam's youngest son.
The runt with no spear,
The arm without armour,
That's why he sped me
In secret from my home.

The war went our way -
The city was not shafted -
The towers did not break,
Troy, towers of Troy,
And my brother Hector,
He won the lucky day.
Then I was the pet, the pup,
Fawned on by my father's friends,
Honoured guest in Thrace,

I couldn't find the end of Polydorus's part in Frank McGuinness version.

The end translated by Jay Kardan & Laura-Gray Street:

...And my mother

will see two corpses of two children: mine and Polyxena’s.
My body will wash up in the surf so she can bury me
properly. I begged this crumb of Hades, and it was granted.

But for now I’ll get out of the way. See how Hecuba
stumbles from the doorway of Agamemnon’s tent,
upset by nightmares and visions of my ghost.
Alas! Old mother, your royal palaces are reduced to meager
corners in another ruler’s tents. How poorly you fare
—as poorly as you once fared well. To balance out
your past prosperity, some god has ruined you.

....Frank McGuinness has translated the horrific tragedy of Hecuba with such integrity, such subtlety of language, that this two thousand four hundred year old play screams its message of terror and revenge with the same power, the same energy, as if its mythology were as fresh and new as our own personal experience.

....It is the aftermath of the Greek defeat of the Trojans. A victorious army are desperate to set sail for home, but the ghost of the fallen hero, Achill es, is seen to hold the ships in port. Their release will be granted with the sacrifice of a princess of Troy , Polyxena, the young virgin daughter of the dethroned Hecuba, Queen of Troy. Hecuba has lost her husband and eldest son. All she has left, as she huddles in the caves near the shore with the other widowed and grieving Trojan women, is the daughter she adores and the hope that her young son, Polydorus, is safe with his friend the King of Thrace.

Clare Higgins gives the performance of a lifetime as Hecuba, the anti-heroine of this surprisingly feminist classical play. There is no weakness here. No resignation that the fates are ruling her destiny. She may be treated lower than a slave, like a dog, by her captors, but Hecuba has all the survival instinct of a regal cornered animal.

Clare Higgins won her 3rd Laurence Olivier Award for this role. (Wikipedia)

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